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Make a new folder anywhere on your computer. (Mine is E:/SVN Folders/HRP)
Right click on the new folder and click "SVN Checkout..."
Enter "http://svn.eduke32.com/polymer_hrp" as the URL and leave the other options as is and click "OK"

You might/may encounter the following message. If so, click "Accept permanently"
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NOTE: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO COPY AND PASTE THIS FOLDER TO YOUR DUKE NUKEM FOLDERS!

Once it has finished downloading,
Right click the folder and go to "TortoiseSVN > Export"
Choose the location you would like to put the HRP in. I placed mine in (C:/Duke Nukem/Duke Nukem HRP)
Then click "OK" It will then export the folder to this directory.
All you need to do once it has finished exporting is to launch "eduke32.exe" and tick the Polymer box and make sure that the HRP folder we exported is shown in the "Custom game content directory:" drop down box. If it isn't then select it and hit "Start"
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To update your copy of the HRP is even easier, right click you SVN folder you made and click "SVN Update" (No really thats all you have to do :lol:)
If there is an update available it will download it, once it has finished downloading just export the folder as you did above.

A video tutorial on how to use SVN is located here if my explanation was terrible. Just remember to use the URL above and not the one shown in the video.

NOTE 2: If downloading you may get a connection error, you can continue the download process from where it stopped, if you just right click again on your HRP download folder and click on "SVN Checkout" - supergoofy

The explanation is ok. But you forgot to tell that sometimes (during download) you may get a connection error. You can continue the download process from where it stopped, if you just right click again on your HRP download folder and click on "SVN Checkout".

The explanation is ok. But you forgot to tell that sometimes (during download) you may get a connection error. You can continue the download process from where it stopped, if you just right click again on your HRP download folder and click on "SVN Checkout".

Yes this is correct, I also read that someone got a pop-up asking for a user name and pass.
If this happens it may have meant they went to COMMIT and not update.

Although, if it does ask for a name and pass just click OK and it should skip it.
(if someone can show me a screen shot of this when it happens it would be nice)

Set up. Downloading the HRP now. Sweet. This'll definitely make updating it far less cumbersome. Thanks.

EDIT: A little quick shortcut I made for myself that any layman who desn't want to hunt down directories can do: Make a shortcut to that directory in your "SVN Folders" directory (the one exampled in the OP). Then when you want to export just right-click and hold on the SVN folder you want to export and drag it on top of the shortcut folder you want to export it to. Release and then click "SVN Export All Items Here". It'll send everything where you want it to go without the fuss of fiddling with overly complicated directory structures like mine.

This post has been edited by MusicallyInspired: 23 July 2010 - 05:57 PM

EDIT: A little quick shortcut I made for myself that any layman who desn't want to hunt down directories can do: Make a shortcut to that directory in your "SVN Folders" directory (the one exampled in the OP). Then when you want to export just right-click and hold on the SVN folder you want to export and drag it on top of the shortcut folder you want to export it to. Release and then click "SVN Export All Items Here". It'll send everything where you want it to go without the fuss of fiddling with overly complicated directory structures like mine.

Nice find that I was to lazy to look for, ill add that to the original post.

I have never encountered this error before, but I am guessing something like this could happen if you were just copy and pasting the SVN hrp folder to your duke folder and not using the export option.
Or you have somehow deleted .svn files inside the SVN folder.

Since they day I've downloaded it, I get all the time the same error when I try to update it:
SETTINGS from 'https://svn.eduke32.com/polymer_hrp': Could not read status line: connexion was closed by server (https://svn.eduke32.com)

I reinstalled windows 7 recently and reinstalled Tortoise SVN , but when creating a directory I keep getting this error.
It's a pain in the ass.
http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y319/ziltoid333/Untitled.jpg

But why do you want to use this dir for hrp? It would be more logical to have D:\Games\Duke3D\ instead...

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This is where I had it before.
I guess it doesn't really matter... though this access denied problem goes further then just SVN .. also can't update files in polymer HRP
...same problem Access denied ...

I had this problem months ago can't remember how I solved it. can't seem to take ownership of folders.

Edit: Solved ...well it solved itself ... it was a windows problem. :S

well i got an error that states The OPTIONS response did not include the requested activity-collection-set; this often means that the URL is not WebDAV-enabled any help and yes i have the latest TortoiseSVN.

But to make this really useful / more usable I would like to know how to combine the usage of "polymer_hrp custom game folder" and the autoload folder.
In my case, I now use svn for keeping the hrp up to date.
But I also want to use the polymer_mus addon. ( And also the xxx_pack :o )
Normally I would just have everything zipped up in the autoload folder, but once I set 'custom game' to the polymer_hrp folder everything in auotload gets ignored.
This seems to be the loading/overloading preferences of the eduke32 engine..

I've solved this by just replacing the hires/music and hires/music.def folders in the polymer_hrp folder with the stuff from the polymer_mus.zip.
But it would be nice not to have to do this and also, in the case off the xxx_pack this wouldn't be practical.
Also now I can't use DukePlus, or any other mods with the hrp from svn.
So is there a way (cmd-line maybe? ) to get what I want? -> Usage of hrp folder from svn + 'normal' autoload/mod load behavior?

A quick simple fix would be to add the Polymer HRP to a zip file like the ones in the autoload folder and drop that zip in the autoload folder.
Although it would be handy if the "autoload" folder could read folders and not just .zip files.